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Title: Bertha and Her Baptism

Author: Nehemiah Adams

Release Date: January 23, 2007 [EBook #20428]

Language: English

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BERTHA
AND HER BAPTISM.

By the Author of

AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY;
_or_,
BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED.

BOSTON:
S.K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY,
161 WASHINGTON STREET.
1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
S.K. WHIPPLE & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY
HOBART & ROBBINS,
New England Type and Stereotype Foundry,
BOSTON.

PREFACE.

This book, and that which is also named in the title-page, were written
at the same time, and as one book; but they were afterward separated, as
more properly constituting two volumes, the part which was the original
of the present volume now being greatly enlarged. Thus the two books
grew in the author's mind together, from one and the same root,--the
death of a little child.

CONTENTS.

Page
CHAPTER I.

PROBABILITIES OF AN ORDINANCE FOR CHILDREN, 9

CHAPTER II.

THE GRANDFATHER'S LETTER.--THE NATURE, GROUNDS AND INFLUENCE,
OF INFANT BAPTISM, 16

CHAPTER III.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BAPTISMS.--THE SUBJECTS AND MODE OF
BAPTISM, 76

CHAPTER IV.

IS THERE ONLY ONE MODE OF BAPTISM? 121

CHAPTER V.

SCENES OF BAPTISM.--REASONABLENESS, BEAUTY AND POWER, OF
INFANT BAPTISM.--USE OF SPECIAL VOWS.--HUSBANDS AT
BAPTISMS.--NEGLECT OF BAPTISM, 130

CHAPTER VI.

TESTIMONY OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS.--APOSTOLIC PRACTICE OF
INFANT BAPTISM